Since the speed of the top Javascript engines seems to be on par, the next criteria is footprint. What are the code and data footprints of the leading javascript engines? ...
There's a lot of capital C, capital S computer science going into Javascript via the Tracemonkey, Squirrelfish, and V8 projects. Do any of these projects (or others) address the performance of DOM operations, or are they purely Javascript computation related? ...
Is it possible to detect that a Firefox browser is running the TraceMonkey JavaScript interpreter? If so, is it possible to do it with JavaScript? A solution which involves examining the browser binary or shared libraries is also OK for me. I'm running Linux with Firefox 3.0.14 right now. ...
I can get the Spidermonkey javascript engine from here: http://www.mozilla.org/js/spidermonkey/ And, I know that Tracemonkey is the newer version released after SpiderMonkey but I cannot find the download link for it in Mozilla? Is it released for public use? Should I stick back to SpiderMonkey or switch to Google's V8 altogether - i...
I am trying to embed a Javascript engine into my application. But the license for Mozilla Javascript engine is GNU/GPL/MPL based and I don't have the time and energy to digest the cryptic legal document. In short, does the license mean I need to publish my application's source code if I embed the engine into my own appli.? Something I...
I want to be able to save a tab's state in Firefox or Google Chrome so that I can restore it later, through writing a custom add-on/plug-in/extension. The closest thing I can find is Firefox's session store API, which can save form data and scroll position. However, I want to save Javascript state too. In addition, if possible, I want t...